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- Aligning Technology to Business Strategy: New Tools, Old Rules
- Technology innovation continues at an incredible rate. Computing power, end-user devices, networking and communication options, and software applications all offer new capabilities and options unimagined even few years ago. But the challenge to CIOs and other executives remain the same as ever: how to select technology investments wisely and have...
- Tags: Technology Investment, Tool, Technology Innovation, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-03-16
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- IBM Engineering & Technology Services Delivers Collaborative Innovation for Competitive Advantage
- IBM considers innovation to be a cornerstone of its competitiveness in the marketplace. Because technology innovation fuels economic growth across developed nations and society at large, it is what drives IBM as a company. But innovation cannot happen in isolation - throughout its history, IBM has worked with hundreds of...
- Tags: Innovation, Competitive Advantage, IBM Corp., Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Idea Qualification
- In today's highly competitive, change-intensive and global marketplace, innovation is a core competency that every business must embrace. Innomation is the automation of innovation and depends on people, processes and technology for success. Many technologies contribute to innovation success but few are true innomation technologies - tools and applications used...
- Tags: Innovation, Innomation, Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Measuring Innovation Effectiveness
- The strategic importance and high level of investment in innovation initiatives require the use of effective measures. Is there a silver bullet for evaluating innovation effectiveness? Will the efforts "Move the needle"? This webcast will explore the types of innovation programs, the connection between innovation, performance and value, and highlight...
- Tags: Innovation Effectiveness, Leadership, Performance Management, Investment, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance
- Webcasts 2007-10-11
- Forrester: Innovation Networks: A New Market Structure will Revitalize Invention-to-Innovation Cycles
- Finicky customers, ruthless competition, and stringent regulations are accelerating demand for technology-enabled innovation. But supply-side deficiency and ineffectiveness hamper firms' ability to convert inventions into profitable innovations. The result? A new market ecosystem — called Innovation Networks — will emerge to match global demand for innovation with worldwide supply. Innovation...
- Tags: Forrester Research Inc., IBM Corp., innovation, network
- White papers 2004-06-17
- The Practice of Innovation: Customer-Centered Innovation at Pitney Bowes
- Success with new product development requires that the "myth of the brilliant idea" be replaced with a model for innovation based on a careful understanding and systematic tightening of constraints. This is called "Customer-Centered Innovation". In contrast to the "myth of the brilliant idea", customer-centered innovation manages the contexts in...
- Tags: Innovation, Pitney Bowes Inc., Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2004-10-01
- CIO insights from IBM: Build collaboration to drive innovation
- More than ever before, CIOs are taking on new responsibilities for driving business growth and fostering innovation. Collaboration is one of the key drivers of innovation—and so it's critical that IT leaders deliver this capability to their organizations. Since IT works with every area of the organization, CIOs are in...
- Tags: CIO, collaboration, IBM Corp., information technology, innovation
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Gabriel Consulting Group: The Quest for Relentless Innovation
- Maximizing innovation is a hot topic today. Innovative firms lead markets in both product leadership and financial returns. This report from Gabriel Consulting Group discusses the need for innovation and explains how traditional business models may not provide enough innovation horsepower to keep up in an increasingly speedy business world....
- Tags: financial, IBM Corp., innovation, leadership
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Make IT Matter For Business Innovation
- Business execs don't believe that the IT organization contributes business innovations to their firm. Not surprising given that IT allocates less than 25% of its budget toward "new" work — activities not classified as maintenance and ongoing operations. But IT's key and unique assets — broad knowledge of the business,...
- Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- Research reports 2005-11-03
- Deliver Immediate Value Through Service-Oriented Architecture: Service-Oriented Architecture Is as Much a Business Innovation as It Is a Technological Innovation
- Service-Oriented Architecture is as much a business innovation as it is a technological innovation. It has the potential to erase the barriers that separate the business and technology sides of any organization, dramatically improving productivity, and increasing shareholder value. This can be accomplished with a relatively modest, incremental investment in...
- Tags: Innovation, Technological Innovation, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-09-01
- IBM Engineering & Technology Services for Electronic Games: Taking the Game Experience to New Levels With Unmatched Processor Performance
- Innovation systems are giving way to open, flat and collaborative innovation networks. To take advantage of the full array of complex technology, Intellectual Property IP and design skills that the game market demands, collaborative teaming is a must. IBM E&TS offers engineering and technical expertise to enable the innovation and...
- Tags: Processor, High-performance, IBM Corp., Games, Leadership, Personal Technology, Management
- White papers 2006-03-01
- IBM: Helping CIOs expand the innovation horizon
- CEOs are demanding more innovation, across more areas of the business, than ever before. What can CIOs do to deliver? In this white paper, IBM examines the results of its 2006 Global CEO Study--a survey of 765 top business leaders--and looks at the implications for CIOs. It draws three main...
- Tags: CIO, IBM Corp., Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Forrester: IBM Links Its Engineering & Technology Services to Global Innovation Networks
- IBM's Engineering & Technology Services (E&TS) offers engineering design and product development services to clients that want to differentiate their new products and services by embedding electronics and software into them. E&TS — along with IBM's On Demand Innovation Services ODIS — accelerates IBM's evolution from a tactical IT vendor...
- Tags: electronics, Forrester Research Inc., IBM Corp., information technology, partnership, product development, software
- White papers 2005-07-11
- Managing Innovation Through Market Discontinuity
- The impact of rapid innovation on business dynamics has been examined using semiconductor companies in the wireless device market as a case study. Semiconductor companies can be divided into three business models based on their value chain focus: technology focused, mixed model and full scale. Each model needs to respond...
- Tags: Innovation, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Semiconductor Company, Leadership, Strategy, Semiconductors, Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- Innovation Sourcing
- The leaders in tomorrow's outsourcing market will be those who can deliver the greatest business value.Excellence in low cost service delivery will be taken for granted - the winners in the market will be those with the capability and vision to help clients innovate in terms of ...
- Tags: Innovation, Sourcing, IBM Corp., Outsourcing, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Leadership, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
- White papers 2006-09-11
- Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Making Innovation Work
- The attendee of this webcast discovers how organization can increase its employees' abilities to deliver the innovation that drives a company's growth. The presenter addresses some of the reasons why companies lose their ability to sustain strong, effective innovation. The presenter also examines why companies find it so hard to...
- Tags: Innovation, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts 2006-05-12
- Blazing Innovation: A Living Heritage
- This webcast shows behind-the-scenes at HP imaging and printing innovation, featuring scalable printing technology. Plus, it shows how HP printers, ink and media are designed and tested.
- Tags: Innovation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Printing, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology Promotes Innovation With R&D Platform
- In July 2004, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government launched an initiative to encourage and enhance scientific and technological innovation in the city. As part of this initiative, the government developed and implemented the Shanghai R&D Public Service Platform. The platform, developed using Oracle 10g technology and running on Red Hat...
- Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., R&D, Shanghai, Leadership, Government, Research & Development, Linux, Strategy, Open Source, Operating Systems, Management, Business Operations, Software
- Case studies
- Intel Architecture and Silicon Cadence: The Catalyst for Industry Innovation
- Intel has a long history of setting the pace of industry innovation with the relentless pursuit of Moore's Law. This pace of innovation has served the ever increasing needs of users by providing the ability to increase processor performance, and deliver new features and capabilities, through innovation in processor architecture....
- Tags: Innovation, Silicon, Cisco Catalyst, Processor, Cadence Design Systems Inc., Industry, Intel Corp., Intel Architecture, Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Cisco Innovation in Action: Transforming Your Business Experiences
- The attendee of this webcast will learn about a breakthrough innovation in meeting and collaboration technology that will revolutionize global business communications and dramatically increase the competitive advantage. The presenters explains how this extraordinary communications technology can connect colleagues, customers, and partners across the world and give the team highly...
- Tags: Innovation, Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Presenter, Leadership, Strategy, Management
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